/**
 * Copyright (c) 2013-2022 Nikita Koksharov
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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 */
package org.redisson.client.protocol;

import java.io.IOException;

import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;


/**
 * Encoder接口定义了编码器的行为，它将对象编码为ByteBuf格式。
 */
public interface Encoder {

    /**
     * 将输入对象编码为ByteBuf格式。
     *
     * @param in 输入待编码的对象。
     * @return 编码后的ByteBuf对象。
     * @throws IOException 在编码过程中如果发生IO异常则抛出。
     */
    ByteBuf encode(Object in) throws IOException;

}
